Month: September 2014

Here is the list of stocks which constitute 1% or more of my portfolio:

Stock

Latest Price

Inv. Price

Overall Gain %

% of Portfolio

Oberoi Realty (52)

255.15

239.2

6.68

9.59%

IDFC (77)

142.35

130.0

9.52

8.14%

eClerx Services (17)

1,345.00

1026.5

31.02

3.23%

ILandFS (31)

20.35

15.0

35.95

2.65%

Selan Explore (28)

562

317.7

76.88

2.45%

Cummins (4)

699.3

411.2

70.05

2.39%

IRB Infra (15)

257.3

81.3

216.29

2.09%

Larsen (16)

1,581.85

1024.8

54.36

2.04%

NMDC (27)

177.85

133.0

33.75

1.99%

Bharat Forge (9)

856.75

272.3

214.69

1.97%

Mayur Uniquoter (11)

434.25

111.0

291.1

1.95%

Kaveri Seed (13)

930

296.6

213.51

1.89%

MPS (14)

545.1

128.7

323.66

1.88%

Balkrishna Ind (11)

752.6

232.3

223.92

1.86%

Shilpa (11)

517

375.1

37.84

1.74%

Sesa Sterlite (3)

279

151.0

84.78

1.67%

RS Software (14)

539.6

206.5

161.29

1.56%

EID Parry (13)

220.6

141.5

55.93

1.52%

Sun Pharma Adv (18)

197.85

121.9

62.27

1.48%

PTC India Fin (6)

44.15

15.0

194.98

1.41%

Hind Zinc (18)

165.1

122.0

35.34

1.36%

Indian Hotels (13)

96.55

59.9

61.06

1.35%

PI Industries (10)

437.6

159.0

175.23

1.35%

Ajanta Pharma (14)

1,604.10

1007.7

59.18

1.30%

Grindwell Norto (7)

490

256.5

91.02

1.25%

Munjal Auto Ind (11)

84.7

34.0

149.17

1.20%

Tata Inv Corp (13)

561.45

405.0

38.63

1.19%

Oriental Carbon (9)

290

113.2

156.17

1.17%

ITC (21)

349.95

307.0

13.99

1.11%

NTPC (6)

141.3

130.2

8.51

1.07%

ICICI Bank (9)

1,548.75

933.8

65.85

1.05%

Sobha Developer (12)

465.5

288.6

61.28

1.03%

Banco Products (2)

142.1

56.2

153.02

1.00%

The stocks representing more than 1% of my portfolio now constitute 68% of my portfolio, and the number of stocks are 33. 32% of the portfolio is represented by the top 8 stocks. I fully intend to concentrate further, so that the top 8 stocks represent 50% of the portfolio.

However, the concentration of scripts has hurt me, since my top stocks, Oberoi Realty, IDFC, Selan Exploration, and IL&FS Investment Managers have significantly underperformed the market in the last couple of months. The only one amongst the top 5 which saw outperformance was eClerx Services. Other top stocks which underperformed included Mayur Uniquoter, IRB Infra, BKT and Sterlite and Shilpa.

The three stocks which saw major outperformance was my old favorite MPS Ltd., and Kaveri Seeds. NMDC and Larsen, while not majorly outperforming in the month, gave me the benefit of buying these stocks on dips in July.Old favorite Cummins continued to do well. Another stock that did well in August was SPARC. PTC India Financial Services and RS Software did remarkably well in August.

What new stocks did I buy? I bought some Exide and some Amara Raja, since both constitute a nice duopoly, I bought HPCL, because there is tremendous value embedded in the company, with or without GOI policy issues, I bought Kitex Garments on a ValuePickr recommendation, Mazda Ltd and Linc Pens on my own reading of the balance sheets and potential. I added to Indian Hotels on a dip after the result. I bought HIL on an India Nivesh Recommendation. Finally, I continued to buy IDFC on dips.

While I continued by relative performance over the other benchmarks, I am still quite disappointed with my performance in August 2014.

Why is this? Well look at the table of rolling returns below:

Returns

My Portfolio

Kotak Classic

SBI Midcap

Nifty

Last Month

6%

5%

7%

3%

Last 3 Months

18%

9%

18%

9%

Last 6 Months

64%

31%

41%

30%

Since Nov,8, 2013

85%

36%

67%

32%

So, while my portfolio still outperformed the large caps, the one month and 3 month performance over the SBI Midcap fund is disappointing.

Why was this so? Partly, I think because IDFC and Oberoi Realty have now a nearly 20% share of my portfolio. And these shares are hardly moving. As a result, the overall portfolio performance is getting muted. While this is disappointing, I still believe strongly in both stocks. And I am using the relative underperformance of these two stocks to buy more.

On a more positive note, the total assets being managed by me have grown to nearly 3 times what it was in November 2013. Part of it is a nearly 80% jump in the NAV. Partly, it is more investment.

Given that I believe we will have a secular bull run for some years if the Modi government performs, I intend to deploy more funds in the market. However, now each stock I intend to purchase is going to have some thing going for it, which is aside from government regulations, and which is unlikely to perform very poorly, if the promised economic agenda does not materialize.